Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRERETON, JANE (1685 - 1740), poetess
BROMLEY, HUMPHREY (1796), Unitarian preacher He was probably the first Unitarian preacher in North Wales. He was the son of Humphrey (a gardener) and Jane Bromley, of Tre-brys, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbighshire, and was born 17 May 1796. Like his father, he was a gardener, but besides this he kept a school in a loft near Pont Maes Mochnant, having 'at least 50 pupils.' Originally an Anglican, he became a Unitarian preacher, supported
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), . Viscount Windsor sold some of the family's Monmouthshire lordships, but the Glamorgan estates descended to his granddaughter, CHARLOTTE JANE, co-heiress of the 2nd viscount. She married, 1766, JOHN, LORD MOUNTSTUART (1744 - 1814), son and heir of the 3rd earl of Bute, who was prime minister from 1762 to 1763. In 1776 lord Mountstuart was created baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle, and, in 1796, viscount
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer Geoff Charles was born on 28 January 1909 in Brymbo near Wrexham. His father John Charles (1870-1941) served as Secretary of the Brymbo Water Company from 1912-1941. His mother Jane Elizabeth (née Read) (1874-1968) was a Queen's Nurse. He grew up with younger brother Hugh and sister Margaret in the Old Vicarage, a house near the railway, a subject for which he soon developed a life-long
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric parish church of Bala. His widow survived him by a mere three weeks, dying on 24 October They left two sons, Thomas Rice Charles, father of David Charles III, and of Jane Charles who became the wife of Lewis Edwards, who continued the family business, and David James Charles, who practised at Bala as a physician.
DAFYDD LLWYD (d. 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar of the landed family of Henblas (Llangristiolus, Anglesey), who, it is said, graduated from S. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He married Catherine, daughter of Richard Owen of Penmynydd, and about eight children were born to them, three of the sons becoming clergymen. Lewys Dwnn and J. E. Griffith state that he also married Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Dafydd of Llandyfrydog (she being his first wife
DANIEL, DAVID ROBERT (1859 - 1931), publicist Born at Ty'n-y-bryn, Llandderfel, 6 May 1859, son of Robert Daniel and Jane, daughter of Robert Roberts. He was educated at the grammar school and the Independent College, Bala, and, after a visit to America, became in 1887 assistant organizer in North Wales for the United Kingdom Alliance. In 1896 he was appointed secretary of the North Wales Quarry-men's Union, and served for a period from 1889
DAVIES family, smiths , Magdalen, Jane, Sarah, Elinor, and Margaret). Robert and John became famous smiths. It is said that they were employed at one time at Drayton House, Northampton, under the direction of the renowned French smith, Jean Tijou, who worked for William III, and by Robert Bakewell of Derby. There is ample proof that they designed the gates of Chirk castle (1719-21), Wrexham church (1720), S. Peters, Ruthin
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist Cassie Davies was born in Blaencaron, near Tregaron, on 20 March 1898. She was christened Cathrin Jane, but was known throughout her life as Cassie. One of ten children, six boys and four girls, she was raised on a mountain farm, Cae Tudur, where her family's history stretched back as far as the seventeenth century. Her father, John, led the singing at Blaencaron chapel and had a melodious tenor
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter Born in the hamlet of Treguff (Tregof) in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire, in 1812 or 1813 (his age was given as 31 when he reached Tasmania in July 1844). His father is said to have been John Davies, a tenant of the duke of Beaufort. It would seem that he was dead at the time of Dai's transportation, but Dai's mother, Mary, his brothers, William and Morgan, and his sisters Ellen Jane
DAVIES, DAVID ARTHUR (1913 - 1990), meteorologist Arthur Davies was born on 11 November 1913 in Barry, Glamorganshire, the second child of Garfield Brynmor Davies, a schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Jane (née Michael, 1881-1974). He had one brother, William Brynmor Davies (1911-1970). He was educated at Gladstone Road Elementary School and Barry County School, and went on to the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he graduated with first class
DAVIES, Sir DAVID SAUNDERS (1852 - 1934), M.P. Born 11 May 1852, knighted 1918, M.P. for the Denbigh division 1918-22; a business man in Manchester. He married in 1886 Jane Emily, daughter of Thomas Gee, and eventually became proprietor of Baner ac Amserau Cymru. He died 28 February 1934.

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